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481	Chinese Enough For Ya? Disrupting and Transforming Notions of Chineseness through Chinesenough Tattoos Chan, Karen Bic Kwun 31 August 2012 (has links) Using interpretive methods of social inquiry, this thesis explores the socio-political significance of body tattoos made of Chinese-like text, which have recently become popular Western phenomena. It theorizes how contemporary Western tattooing complicates bodily and social boundaries, providing context to interrogate ideas of authenticity. Coining the term "Chinesenough" (from “Chinese” and “enough”), I describe how many such tattoos do not reflect in Chinese what many wearers and viewers assume they do. I contrast how Chinesenough tattoos (re)produce whiteness to the multiple and contradictory Chinesenesses that are also (re)produced. Reading Chinesenough flash art on tattoo studio walls as objects constituting social space, I consider the social meaning of their English subtitles and manner of organization. I theorize the body’s absence from Chinesenough flash art while articulating my body’s sense experience of encountering the same. Finally, I produce and theorize five illustrations that carnivalize Chinesenough iconography to disrupt and transform the phenomenon. Authenticity Hybridity Chineseness Chinese Chinese Tattoos Tattooing Body Modification Flash Art Arts Informed Inquiry Arts Informed Research Whiteness Hanzi Kanji Diasporic Studies Interpretive Social Inquiry Carnivlesque Cultural Appropriation Chinese Canadian Social space Subtitling Sense Experience Absent Body Third Space Anti-fashion Asian Studies Asian American Studies Asian Canadian Studies Cultural Studies Visual Culture Phenomenology 0631 0626 0344 0515 0534 0326 0304 0305 0332
482	Chinese Enough For Ya? Disrupting and Transforming Notions of Chineseness through Chinesenough Tattoos Chan, Karen Bic Kwun 31 August 2012 (has links) Using interpretive methods of social inquiry, this thesis explores the socio-political significance of body tattoos made of Chinese-like text, which have recently become popular Western phenomena. It theorizes how contemporary Western tattooing complicates bodily and social boundaries, providing context to interrogate ideas of authenticity. Coining the term "Chinesenough" (from “Chinese” and “enough”), I describe how many such tattoos do not reflect in Chinese what many wearers and viewers assume they do. I contrast how Chinesenough tattoos (re)produce whiteness to the multiple and contradictory Chinesenesses that are also (re)produced. Reading Chinesenough flash art on tattoo studio walls as objects constituting social space, I consider the social meaning of their English subtitles and manner of organization. I theorize the body’s absence from Chinesenough flash art while articulating my body’s sense experience of encountering the same. Finally, I produce and theorize five illustrations that carnivalize Chinesenough iconography to disrupt and transform the phenomenon. Authenticity Hybridity Chineseness Chinese Chinese Tattoos Tattooing Body Modification Flash Art Arts Informed Inquiry Arts Informed Research Whiteness Hanzi Kanji Diasporic Studies Interpretive Social Inquiry Carnivlesque Cultural Appropriation Chinese Canadian Social space Subtitling Sense Experience Absent Body Third Space Anti-fashion Asian Studies Asian American Studies Asian Canadian Studies Cultural Studies Visual Culture Phenomenology 0631 0626 0344 0515 0534 0326 0304 0305 0332
483	A Place Like This: An Environmental Justice History of the Owens Valley - Water in Indigenous, Colonial, and Manzanar Stories Embrey, Monica 01 May 2009 (has links) This text provides an environmental justice analysis of the stories of the people who lived in the Owens Valley, who watered its land and cultivated its crops—pine trees, apple trees, and kabocha alike. Telling the personal stories of challenge and resistance that manifested alongside the oppressive forces of military and state domination provides the opportunity to align forcibly relocated, exploited and incarcerated people’s struggles throughout time. This text starts with The Nü’ma Peoples who were the first humans to live in the Owens Valley and continues with the struggle for empire between rival colonial empires of agriculture and distant urban cities. Its final chapters end with an in-depth and personal exploration of the unconstitutional incarceration of 117,000 people of Japanese ancestry in the United States during World War II. All the while it weaves in poetry, art and grassroots stories of resistance. It is a call to action for Environmental Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments to link the critical analysis within their disciplines to tell more accurate histories. environmental justice water history Japanese American internment Native American Owens Valley American Politics Asian American Studies Demography, Population, and Ecology Ethnic Studies Gender and Sexuality Native American Studies Place and Environment Politics and Social Change Race and Ethnicity Regional Sociology Social and Cultural Anthropology
484	Tribal Selves: Subversive Identity in Asian American and Native American Literature Suzuki-Martinez, Sharon S., 1963- January 1996 (has links) No description available.
485	Direct marketing and Asian American in Inland Empire Hutabarat, Laura Louisa 01 January 2003 (has links) This thesis employed a series of surveys of Asian Americans residing in the Inland Empire to determine their personal views towards direct marketing. Data is broken out by age, gender, ethnicity and employment status. Asian American consumers -- Attitudes Direct marketing Consumer behavior Marketing
486	Disruptions in the Dream City: Unsettled Ideologies at the 1905 World's Fair in Portland, Oregon Cleland, Kat 17 June 2013 (has links) This thesis examines the experiences of fairgoers at the Lewis and Clark Centennial, American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair held in Portland, Oregon from June to October of 1905. Historians have framed world's fairs and international expositions as sites of legitimating narratives and restagings of empire and nationhood. This thesis focuses on women, Asian Americans, and Native Americans who interrupted and disrupted the performance and exhibition of U.S. imperialism in the specific case of Portland, Oregon. It considers who benefitted from or endured loss in the demonstrations of imperial culture at the Fair. Following the premises that metropolitan and colonial histories should be considered in the same analytical field and that the systemic power of domestic imperialism in the United States extended beyond Native Americans into the experiences of most nonwhite American communities, this thesis adds a metropolitan approach to Native-American history and, in turn, applies a more colonial approach to the study of African-American, Asian-American, and working-class women's histories. In three chapters, this study explores a range of disruptions at the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial - patched over by the Exposition's civic elites and overlooked by previous historians of the Fair - that shed light on the politics of race, class, and gender within the processes of empire and nation building in the turn-of-the-century West. Or.) African American Studies Asian American Studies Indigenous Studies
487	Human Capital Formation and Return Migration within Mong Communities in Rural/Semi-Rural Northern California Yang, Chong 01 January 2021 (has links) This research uses computational grounded theory to explore the human capital formation and stay/return migration experiences of well-educated Mong adults living in various rural/semi-rural Northern California localities within Butte, Yuba, and Sutter Counties. Rural vitality is dependent on the return of these well-educated rural-raised adults. Out-migration of rurality’s best and brightest contributes towards a brain drain and the hallowing out of rurality’s human capital. Findings of this research is conveyed using two research articles examining two different points on the continuum of rural vitality. The first article examines 19 Mong adults’ educational experiences within their rural communities and college education. The second article examines the experiences and factors for the same Mong adults to stay or return. The seven emerging themes describe Mong students’ social capital within their communities towards educational attainment and place affinity. Education Asian studies Southeast Asian studies Hmong Human Capital Mong Northern California Rural Social Capital Asian American Studies Education Educational Leadership Ethnic Studies Migration Studies Race and Ethnicity Rural Sociology Social and Behavioral Sciences Sociology
488	“The Reliability of Cross-Cultural Communication in Contemporary Anglophone Arab Writing” ALHAJJI, ALI A. 31 December 2018 (has links) No description available. American History American Studies American Literature Asian American Studies Australian Literature Bilingual Education Canadian Literature Communication Comparative Literature Ethnic Studies Foreign Language Language Literature Middle Eastern History Middle Eastern Literature Middle Eastern Studies Minority and Ethnic Groups Near Eastern Studies Personality Psychology Rhetoric British and Irish Literature postcolonial Anglophone Arab narrative cross-cultural communication unreliability
489	Biracial/Multiracial Student Perceptions of Student Academic Support Services at a Predominantly White Public Institution Fischer-Kinney, Julie A. January 2012 (has links) No description available. Academic Guidance Counseling African American Studies Asian American Studies Black Studies Educational Leadership Ethnic Studies Higher Education Higher Education Administration Hispanic American Studies Minority and Ethnic Groups Multicultural Education Native American Studies biracial multiracial support services predominantly white institution student academic support services student perceptions student success local student success model triangulation focus groups
490	Rendering the Other: Ideologies of the Neo-Oriental in World of Warcraft Vlisides, James C. 15 May 2013 (has links) No description available. American Studies Asian American Studies Asian Studies Computer Science Cultural Anthropology Ethnic Studies Information Science Information Systems Information Technology Mass Communications Mass Media Rhetoric Social Research Sociology Technology Technical Communication American Cuilture Studies Video Games Ideology Althusser Said Asia Orientalism World of Warcraft Play Thesis Race Materialism Capitalism Gold Farming Play Immersion Postmodernism

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